​BRENHAM, WASHINGTON COUNTY - Blue Bell Creameries has
officially resumed operations at the company's main plant in Brenham.

Blue Bell already resumed production in Alabama in July 2015
and Oklahoma in September 2015.

Blue Bell is embarking upon a five-phase plan to return to
normal operations. The company will enter phase three on Dec. 14, 2015.
Products will be sold on store shelves in San Antonio and a number of South
Texas markets on that date.

While Blue Bell is producing and testing ice cream products
in Brenham, the company does not yet have a firm date for when ice cream
produced at that plant will be available for sale.

Nearly 700 of its employees, who were put on paid furlough
earlier this year, have returned to work.

Tours will not resume at the Brenham facility at
this time, but the company’s Country Store, Visitor Center and ice cream parlor
are open to the public.